Thanks to an intensive fundraising effort spearheaded by the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Thomas Eakins’ “The Gross Clinic” will stay in Philadelphia.

The Fairmount Park Art Association’s Executive Director, Penny Balkin Bach, has been named one of Philadelphia’s 76 Creative Connectors by Leadership Philadelphia and WHYY/NewsWorks.

“The city’s main tenders of public art, the Fairmount Park Art Association, have created a terrific audio tour –Museum Without Walls™: AUDIO – of public sculptures.”

In Philadelphia, the month-old “Museum Without Walls” audio program was created to be used like a customizable museum that’s free and never closes.

At an 11 a.m. presentation tomorrow Thursday, June 10 at LOVE Park, the Museum without Walls, a groundbreaking new multi-platform audio program from the Fairmount Park Art Association, will be unveiled.

The Fairmount Park Art Association is one of ten local arts and culture organizations receiving a $75,000 Engage 2020 Innovation Grant, funded by The Wallace Foundation and The Pew Charitable Trusts, and managed by The Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance (GPCA) and The Philadelphia Foundation.

35 sculptures along the Ben Franklin Parkway and Kelly Drive will allow anyone, anywhere, learn a little more about Philadelphia’s outdoor art.

Grab a copy of the March/April 2014 issue of Arrive Magazine and read about the Association for Public Art’s Museum Without Walls™: AUDIO program as “The Voice of Philadelphia’s Public Art.”

Created in collaboration with the Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia, our bike map highlights sculpture stops and scenic views throughout Fairmount Park.